2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

In Mark Haddon’s widely acclaimed novel, an unusual and brilliant boy insists on investigating the mysterious death of a neighbour’s dog.This is Christopher's murder mystery story. There are also no lies in this story because Christopher can't tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colours yellow or brown or being touched. On the other hand, he knows all the countries in the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7507. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time is a mystery novel shot through with poignancy with a 15-year-old Asperger’s/autistic narrator who tasks himself with solving a crime but who simultaneously has to negotiate adolescence and his parents’ failed marriage."Mr Haddon has deliberately created a story defined and limited by his hero's very logical, literal-minded point of view. The result is a minimalistic narrative – not unlike a Raymond Carver story in its refusal to speculate, impute motive or perform emotional embroidery ... Christopher's detective work eventually takes him on a frightening trip to London, a trip that Mr Haddon makes us experience from the boy's point of view as a harrowing adventure, as scary as anything in an action thriller. And it also leads to an unravelling of his own family's past ... Christopher emerges as a wonderfully vivid individual. He never for a moment feels like a generic teenager or a composite portrait of someone with Asperger's syndrome." - Mieko Kakutani, The New York TimesMark Haddon By 2003, Haddon was an established and successful writer for children whose Agent Z books - which he illustrated himself - had gained him an enthusiastic young following. The Curious Incident, however, was something quite different. Haddon says he wrote the book for an adult audience but it works just as well as a young adult novel. Over ten million copies sold’Outstanding...a stunningly good read’ Observer’Mark Haddon’s portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement... Wise and bleakly funny’ Ian McEwan The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down. Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written fifteen books for children and won two BAFTAs. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling in 2003. It won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Award. His poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by Picador in 2005, and his last novel, The Red House, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. He lives in Oxford. Christopher er 15 og har Aspergers syndrom, en form for autisme. Han kan navnet på alle land og hovedsteder i verden og alle primtallene opp til 7507. Han kan mye om matte og svært lite om mennesker. Han har aldri gått lenger enn til enden av gaten alene inntil naboens hund blir drept. Christopher bestemmer seg for å ta på seg jobben som detektiv for å finne ut hva som har skjedd med hunden, og må bevege seg ut i verden. Han blir stilt overfor mange utfordringer, og selv om han ikke skjønner seg spesielt godt på mennesker kan han føle både kjærlighet og livsmot. Mark Haddon har skrevet og illustrert en rekke prisbelønte barnebøker. Dette er hans debutroman. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS This is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he begins a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down This is Christopher's murder mystery story. There are no lies in this story because Christopher can't tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colours yellow or brown or being touched. On the other hand, he knows all the countries in the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7507. When Christohper decides to find out who killed the neighbour's dog, his mystery story becomes more complicated than he could ever have predicted. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year'Outstanding...a stunningly good read' Observer'Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement...